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1 Wednesday, :00 Arrival, Registration, Lunch 13:30 Official opening of the conference, welcome address Prof. Dr. Peter Grathwohl, Vice-President of Research and Innovation of Tübingen University Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Volker Mosbrugger, Director General of the Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung 13:45 Miriam Haidle (Tübingen/Frankfurt), Martin Porr (Crawley) General introduction SESSION 1 The origins of the eternal quest for beauty: What is the significance of Palaeolithic art in history of art and the understanding of the development of aesthetics? (chair Michael Bolus, Tübingen) 14:15 Michael Bolus (Tübingen) 14:20 Ingeborg Reichle (Wien) The Origin of Species and the beginning of art. Art history's encounter with Darwinian aesthetics around :50 Rémi Labrusse (Paris) The collapse of the origins. Prehistory beyond art history 15:20 COFFEE BREAK 15:50 Thomas Heyd (Victoria) Rock art and aesthetics 16:20 Ulrich Pfisterer (München) The primitive s gaze. Art historical and other fantasies about human origins 16:50 Harald Floss (Tübingen) References to prehistory in modern and contemporary art. Willi Baumeister and Germany 17:20 COFFEE BREAK

2 18:00 Keynote Lecture by Nicholas J. Conard (Tübingen) Females, fish, fowl, flutes and the variety of artistic expressions in the Swabian Aurignacian 19:00 Welcome Reception

3 Thursday, SESSION 2 The challenge of materiality: How should we understand Palaeolithic art as material culture? (chair Martin Porr, Crawley) 08:45 Martin Porr (Crawley) 08:50 Hans-Peter Hahn (Frankfurt/Main) Paleolithic art as meaningful practice and skilled routine: some rather mundane remarks on the production of art objects 09:20 Chris Low (Oxford) What can contemporary Bushmen tell us about the art of their ancient ancestors? 09:50 Peter Vang Petersen (Copenhagen) Amber elks and bears in the Palaeolithic of Southern Scandinavia. 10:20 COFFEE BREAK 10:50 Shumon T. Hussain (Leiden) Humans, animals and caves: Tapping into the more-than-human context of Palaeolithic visual culture 11:20 Olivia Rivero (Salamanca) The apprenticeship of techniques in Palaeolithic art work 11:50 Randall White (New York) Aurignacian material representation: An abundance of new evidence from SW France 12:20 LUNCH BREAK

4 SESSION 3 Beyond evolution and history: How should we connect Palaeolithic art objects to the origins of modern cognition and Homo sapiens? (chair: Gerd-Christian Weniger, Mettmann) 13:45 Gerd-Christian Weniger (Mettmann) 13:50 Margaret Conkey (Berkeley) Materiality, memory and the microscale: Alternative considerations in the study and interpretation of Palaeolithic art 14:20 Oscar Moro-Abadía (St. John s) Beyond art and images. Recent conceptualisations of Palaeolithic symbolic materials 14:50 Niels Weidtmann (Tübingen) Beyond the distinction of culture and nature: What art may teach us about the evolution of cognition 15:20 COFFEE BREAK 15:50 Thomas Juncker (Tübingen) Why art? The Darwinian perspective 16:20 Ewa Dutkiewicz & Nicholas J. Conard (Tübingen) The Swabian Aurignacian and beyond: Understanding symbolic communication 16:50 Duilio Garofoli (Tübingen) Evolutionary cognitive archaeology and the new radical critique: The case of Upper Palaeolithic cave painting 18:00 Guided Tour University Museum of Ancient Cultures (optional) 19:00 Conference Dinner

5 Friday, SESSION 4 Perception, practice and performance: How can we access the experiential and perceptual dimensions reflected in Palaeolithic art objects? (chair: Miriam Haidle, Tübingen) 08:45 Miriam Haidle (Tübingen/Frankfurt) 08:50 Inés Domingo Sanz (Barcelona) Challenging archaeological approaches to Palaeolithic rock art from ethnoarchaeology 09:20 Adeline Schebesch (Erlangen) The Lady and the Lionman. Using basic theatre techniques to investigate the gestures of UP anthropomorphic figures of the Swabian Jura. An experimental study in body language 09:50 Antonio Batarda (Vila Nova de Foz Côa) Open-air Upper Palaeolithic rock-art in the Côa Valley, Portugal: Regional particularities, individual self-awareness and social differentiation 10:20 COFFEE BREAK 10:50 Elizabeth Velliky (Tübingen), Martin Porr (Crawley), Brandi Lee MacDonald (Columbia) & Nicholas J. Conard (Tübingen) The Law of the Land. The selection and utilisation of pigments in the Upper Palaeolithic of Central Europe 11:20 Andreas Pastoors (Erlangen) Blundering about in the darkness. Controversial interpretations of Magdalenian findings in Enlène (Ariège, France) 11:50 Tommaso Mattioli (Barcelona) & Margarita Díaz-Andreu (Barcelona) Cave soundscapes: The tuning of darkness 12:20 LUNCH BREAK

6 SESSION 5 From digital documentation to meaningful analysis: How can different disciplines and stakeholders profit from digital recording and documentation techniques of Palaeolithic art? (chair: Sibylle Wolf, Tübingen) 13:45 Sibylle Wolf (Tübingen) 13:50 Tilmann Lenssen-Erz & Oliver Vogels (Köln) Digitized semantics: Decoding complexity of rock art in the Brandberg-Daureb (Namibia) 14:20 Christoph Steffen & Markus Steffen (Esslingen) Digitalisierte Eiszeitkunst. Streifenlichtscanning und Fotogrammetrie zur Dokumentation und Visualisierung archäologischer Funde (Digitised Ice Age art. Structured light scanning and photogrammetry in the documentation and visualisation of archaeological artefacts) 14:50 Ewa Dutkiewicz (Tübingen) A case study for the use of 3D models: The Swabian figurines 15:00 Jo McDonald (Crawley) Murujuga: Dynamics of the Dreaming s data 15:30 COFFEE BREAK 16:00 Andrew Kandel (Tübingen) & Rimtautas Dapschauskas (Heidelberg) Studying ochre use in the African Middle Stone Age 16:30 David Huguet (Vallon Pont d'arc) The Chauvet Cave Replica Project 17:00 Concluding discussion Saturday, :00 Excursion to the Swabian Jura World Heritage Sites, visit of Museum Blaubeuren